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  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    2 years ago

    You’re forgetting about porn/OF promotion subs. You have no idea how many posts/comments they have per day. The mumber is mindbogling.

    • Suppoze@beehaw.org
      11·
      2 years ago

      True… Hornyposters are a whole different beast, seems to me like a separate “community” within reddit who doesn’t really care about other stuff. I’m not a saint, I browse NSFW subreddits as well, but I cannot comprehend why would anybody want to comment under some random nude. The amount of thirsty comments is mind-boggling

      • setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org
        10·
        2 years ago

        Not even the commenters, but the promotion bots. With as filtered as I had my settings of r/all, I’d often see them in new. What is notable is they often post the same post to multiple subreddits at the same time. I’m talking like 20 posts back to back by the same OF bot. That’s a huge amount of activity on a chart even if in reality it’s just white noise.

        • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 years ago

          Yeah, this too. The same image/gif/vid get’s reposted on several different subs. Sometimes with the same title, sometimes with a different title, but it is the same content. They don’t wanna crosspost cuz it reveals that they post the same image to several subs, which decreases their chance of actually getting some subscribers.

          • You@feddit.de
            3·
            2 years ago

            Concerning the karma farmers and other spam bots: A lot of active redditors who reported them as soon as they cropped up aren’t on the platform at the moment. And some people might make use of ‘the troubles’ to set up new bots or for promotion. The last I’ve seen of those (before blackout) were people gifting karma/coordinate upvotes via subs somehow affiliated with Temu (some newish cheap shopping platform).

      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yep, just look at what’s happening on lemmynsfw.com… number of communities is blowing up.

        I can unserstand commenting, cuz… maybe it makes you hard and you just wanna like let that gal/guy know that, in the off chance he/she reads that comment, doesn’t have an OF and is actually trying to hook up… and is the original content creator… hope never dies.

        Remember that quote from Dumb and Dumer “so you’re telling me there’s a chance 😏”… it’s like that.

    • nrezcm@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      I refuse to believe such smut could be responsible. It just doesn’t add up. Maybe if you could tell me what subreddits you’re talking about I could perform my own research into the subject.

      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 years ago

        Look at the posts from users that post there, mostly OF promotions, you’ll see like 20, 30 posts back to back in 10, 20 minute span.

        OF is a huge business now, litelarly get sugar daddies from OF subscribers, not to mention the subscribers themselves, they bring a revenue as well. Most of them just want a quick buck, don’t wanna work, live with their parents at 25+ years… bsiaclly, just lazy AF individuals that make pocket money from that so they at least don’t bother their parents when they hang out with friends. a large portion even show their faces now, don’t even care, their friends and family know, it doesn’t seem to bother them.

        I can share some of those subs if you’d like, got an account for that on reddit 😁.